The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-12-24
MICKEY FINN'S CAT.
Her Sale, and How He Got Her
Back Again.


Where's tn cat, motherP sale
Mickey Finn, after he had MIXED thu
goat and got the kindling wood ready
for the morning.
'Shure sold her fur a dollar bill,
right in me hand"
Mickey started up with an exclama'
ton of grief and surprise.
'Oh, ye needn't be Vaughn your jaws
at tn mother that raised ye up and fed
yc since ye were no bigger'n til little
cat itself. know phwat's best fur We.
me by, an cats is no good, on'y fur
t be me-own' around on the tince whin
dacent folks is in bed these cowld
nights. Now, Mickey, avic, be good
I yersel', an don't be w'inin' about a
m'asely cat as has tieas an is only
good fur lappin' milk an scratchin' at
tn back dare. Hasen't yo tn COW an
til billy goat t play wild? Yc
wouldn't be havin' As foine fun wild a
scrawny cat asye wud wild q fine billy
goat wild his wicked horns an TIL diriT's
eyes in his head, bad luck to him!
The first chance I'll be havin' I'll sell
him, too, so will. I'd hay' him sold
this tweP month on'y livery wun is
afeard iy his dirty thricks, so they are.
All had that goat on tn limekill I'd
shove him off, so would. an him fall
in OF tn rocks below an smashing
him into little bits no bigger'n buck.
wate.n
This TRADE against his pets had no
effect upon Mickey. H. had heard it
80 often that it passed through his
mind like water through q sieve. How
TO recover the cat was what troubled
him, She had been in his possession
only about Il month, but during that
time he had learnelt to regard her with
4 great deal Of affection. The geneal-
ogy Of the cat was unku0w to little
Mickey, He didn't know whether the
cat had Tapped warm milk before a
cozg kitchen fire, or had been forced
out into the cold world in her extreme
youth and made to scratch for her liv-
Ing in refuse heaps. All he knew of
her early history was that on return
ing home Il evening he saw
Do.an's yellow dog chase her
up 4 tree. H had stoned tho dog
away and coaxed the cat to come
down. Safely sheltered in his bosom,
he had taken her home and washed
her muddy fur with water from the
hand basin and wiped her dry with
his handkerchief. When lie had
thoroughly cleaned her fur he found
mat she was pure white in color,
without spot or blemish and that she
had beautiful pink eyes. He remem.
bered now that she was lost to him,
perhaps forever; that for two months
the eat had been his bedfellow. Even
now, in fancy, he could hear her
soft purr as she snuggled down
against his breast, with her long
whiskers tickling his cheek. He
noted in his minds eye how nicely
the blue ribbon around hor neck con-
trasted with the color of her shining
coat. and he was very sorrowful and
cried in%wardly, and would have burst
into tears il the door had been be.
tween him and his mother However,
the exigencies OF the case called for
action, and he mustered up courage
enough to say, tremblingly:
Mother, what was the woman's
name as bought herp"
bad scran yc. by; shure l
wouldn't hav' tn impotence Z Ak hor
name. an she givin' me a dollar fur a
weeny cat, when thare's more cats as
nd fill a cellar over on Hanratty street
beyant, an divil a ha' porth ye'd nav
fur forty iv them. ribbon an all. !
on'y know tn Teddy lives on TIL hill
%forninst tn Catholic church, an her
ma is a lawyer, wild bags full iv goold
and silver, 9 say nothin' Nv tn Crane
backs he does be havin', 0 power
till HIN. Ply. Mickey, fur phwat dye
want T know her name, at allp'' said
Mrs. Finn.
4 do be wantin' = buy her back
buy har back agipl an mo widfh,I